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As I knew themarticle 1982 • Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains rich anecdotal material about the Navajo way of life. It is based on interviews with a few informants, focusing on women's life in particular from childhood to adulthood....People of the middle placeessay 1963 • Leighton, Dorothea Cross & Adair, John
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is the last of the tribal monographs under the Indian Education Personality and Administration Project. It is made up of two distinct sections. The first is an ethnographic accou...Children of the peoplebook chapter 1947 • Leighton, Dorothea (Cross) & Kluckhohn, Clyde
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is the most complete published book on the application of personality and intelligence tests to Navajo children. The results of those tests are balanced against the knowledge the authors ...The Navahobook chapter 1946 • Kluckhohn, Clyde & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an excellent srudy of the Navajo in the early to mid-twentieth century. The book was undertaken as part of the Indian Education Research Project to compare personality development in f...The Navaho doorbook chapter 1944 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book is designed primarily as an introduction to the 'Navajo way' and as such should be useful to persons about to work on the reservation. However, its excellence lies chiefly in its dis...Some types of uneasiness and fear in a Navaho Indian communitybook chapter 1942 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains an interesting account of sources of fear, etc., in a Navajo community that is presented in tables. There is also a discussion of methodology....Elements of psychotherapy in Navaho religionbook chapter 1941 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The authors, both psychiatrists and students of the Navajo, analyzed a typical Navajo healing ceremony and point out its many psychotherapeutic elements. They urged that Euro-American medical ...Gregorio, the hand-tremblerBook 1949 • Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) & Leighton, Dorothea (Cross)
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is the first of the Peabody Museum reports on the Ramah project. The project is a systematic study of the Navajo living in the off-reservation area of Ramah, which began officially in 193...